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WordPress 3.0-4.8.1 - Path Traversal in Unzipping

Description

A path traversal vulnerability was discovered in the file unzipping code.

Affects WordPress

3.8.1
Fixed in version 3.8.22
3.8
Fixed in version 3.8.22
3.7.1
Fixed in version 3.7.22
3.6
Fixed in version 4.8.2
3.5.2
Fixed in version 4.8.2
3.5.1
Fixed in version 4.8.2
3.5
Fixed in version 4.8.2
3.4.2
Fixed in version 4.8.2
3.4.1
Fixed in version 4.8.2
3.4
Fixed in version 4.8.2

References

CVE
CVE-2017-14719
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2017/09/wordpress-4-8-2-security-and-maintenance-release/
URL
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41457
URL
https://hackerone.com/reports/205481

Classification

Type

LFI

OWASP top 10
A1: Injection
CWE
CWE-22

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Alex Chapman (noxrnet)

Submitter

alykode

Verified

No

WPVDB ID
d74ee25a-d845-46b5-afa6-b0a917b7737a

Timeline

Publicly Published

2017-09-20 (about 5 years ago)

Added

2017-09-25 (about 5 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-09-22 (about 2 years ago)

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